Using poverty alone to explain the achievement gap may do more harm than good. By Richard Rothstein | Originally Published at The Economic Policy Institute [EPI]. October 10, 2013 On her “Bridging Differences” blog, educator Deborah Meier began a discussion with Mike Petrilli of the [...]
Photograph; In this file photo taken Monday, Oct. 25, 2010, Joseph Erb, helps out students Cambria Bird, left, and Lauren Grayson, right, in the fifth grade class of the Cherokee Nation Immersion School in Tahlequah, Okla. | AP As the public at-large expresses their distress for what [...]
Graphic; Low-income students made up at least half the public school student population in 17 states in 2011, a marked increase from 2000, when four states topped 50 percent. By Lyndsey Layton | Originally Published at The Washington Post. October 16 E-mail the writer A majority of [...]
Gentrification is the predominant form of neighborhood development in many cities. | Photograph: Bill Cooper By David Madden | Originally Published at Guardian. Thursday 10 October 2013 07.30 EDT It's no secret that today's big cities are massively unequal, and gentrification is now the predominant form of [...]
Photo Credit: aastock | Shutterstock.com By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at AlterNet. | October 3, 2013 It's time for some new thinking about how to address the persistent inequalities that plague our education system. As the evidence mounts discrediting much of the movement for [...]
By Greg Kaufmann | The Poverty Line, What Matters Today | Originally Published at BillMoyers.com September 27, 2013 We’re proud to collaborate with The Nation in sharing insightful journalism related to income inequality in America. The following post appeared first in Nation contributor Greg Kaufmann’s “This Week [...]
A mother and child are greeted by Jillian Maes, part of Stanford's team of researchers led by Professor Anne Fernald. | L.A. Cicero By Bjorn Carey | Originally Published at Stanford News. September 25, 2013 Research by Stanford psychologists reveals that 2-year-old children of lower-income families may [...]
In the summer of 2013 House Republicans dropped funding for food stamps and other nutritional programs from the Farm Bill. Historically the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) comprised about 80 percent of the funds allocated in the Farm Bill. Cost savings were claimed as the reason for [...]
Photograph; Mel Yates By Pedro Noguera | | Originally Published at The Nation. September 11, 2013 The latest “school reform” silver bullet fails to address how children learn. Ever since the release of A Nation at Risk, in 1983, the government report issued by Ronald Reagan’s [...]
